31 Years Old, Lower Bleph

Hello!

I have been able to play with makeup a little bit, and I am pretty excited.

On Christmas evening, I went out for dinner and opted for putting make up my upper eyes only, and ointment on my lower lids still, since they felt irritated and rough. I didn't want to rush my body to being ready for makeup, so I worked around the area. It looked a little bit odd to have the nice makeup everywhere else except my lower lids, which were shiny, but, I dealt with it. For the most part, I finally felt like I was starting to look good. :)

Several evenings ago (Monday night) there was a local event I wanted to go out to, so I attempted to put on makeup on my lower lids since I knew people would be taking a lot of photos, and my redness was apparent in contrast to the rest of my face with makeup on. It did NOT go well! The skin on my under eye still had a raw texture to it, so when I delicately tried to put concealer on, it filled in cracky areas and glossed over others, and looked like the sahara desert. Mind you, I was attempting to put the concealer on freshly moisturized skin. In desperation, I even tried blending a little bit of my moisturizer with the concealer so I could at least get a tint, but, that was not working out either. Frustrated, I carefully cleaned off the concealer on my under eyes, and then remoisturized. Needless to say, wiping on the face, even as careful and soft as I was, increased the redness. I opted to stay in that night. :

Yesterday I decided to go out to the mall with my friend, and, rather than possibly get frustrated and irritating my skin more, decided to stick with my Christmas approach for makeup and worked around the lower eyes. I wore some tan eye shadow and some liner and masara on the top of my lids, used a mineral powder on my face except for the under eyes, and a nice lip shade called Teddy Bare by Milani. In the dressing room I felt kinda cute so I snapped several photos to post.

The first photo from today's post is me just waking up, with no makeup (or even face washing, so there are some eyelashes hanging out in my ointment). I have opted to keep using the ointment at night since my skin is still so dry, over two weeks later...This morning my right eye feels pretty good, nice and normal. However, my left eye feels angry at me. It feels pretty dry and I feel like there is something stuck in it like an eyelash. I did come to find out this morning that the lubrication had bent one of my eyelashes inward so it was poking me all night but I don't think that is the culprit. I just ran out of Represh preservative free eyedrops, so I am going to get some more of those soon. The skin on my left eye is still a little bit tender, too, and feels like a really mild sunburn still. I think maybe I slept on it, since I am a side sleeper and I am finally allowing myself to sleep in a position that is not upright. Who knows?

Today I think I will skip all makeup because it is possible that some mascara found its way in my eye, and maybe that is why I feel more irritated today compared to yesterday. Yesterday I felt great except for eye dryness, which my eyedrops helped with a lot.

Here is hoping my left eye catches up to speed with my right one, in terms of healing. My right eye feels pretty back to normal now, though.

Unless I have complications that arise, I will post more in another week or so. My journey is far from over, but I feel like the dramatic changes have taken place already. I wonder what the results will be in a month or two from now, when the skin settles down.

Thanks for checking in! If you have questions, let me know in the comments, or send me a message!

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Merry Christmas!

Today just a quick makeup-free post of before and after. My surgery was 12 days ago and today most of my resurfaced skin is off. I think maybe one more day of ointment and then, I can wear makeup! Wooooo, so close! All in all, the redness of the laser is not as pigmented as I expected. Yay!

Today I'm feeling good, just a little dryness in my eyes but it's not as extreme as a few days ago.

Have a great holiday, everyone! My next update will be with my hair and makeup done. ^__^

Here are a few pics from Friday. More of the resurfaced skin is emerging and I just have a bit left to slough off...I'm still looking like a greaseball until then since I want to keep the skin moist with ointment until it all sheds.

Once it does all shed, I can switch to a moisturizer and begin to use makeup under/on my eyes again. Today more of the swelling subsided in my whole face and I felt remotely attractive today (for a lizard-lady) so I put on a light powder around my face (where I am ointment free) and popped on a nude lipstick. I did a touch of mascara on my upper lash which was so nice to give a little definition. I am nervous to proclaim success, but now I am admittedly getting a little excited since I amoved beginning to feel attractive again. I am in disbelief that the bags are gone! When I look in the mirror I keep expecting them to reappear. Glad for now!